Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-10

| in his pocket-book and refused to pay.
Hoffman talks very frankly about the
| game. BE says;
~ am an old Grand Army man.
Everybody knows me. Ny word my
bond. am no gambler. never had
z card in my place. But l like little
game of pinochle with my friends. !
think play it pretty well. Mr.. Cline
is friend of mine. 1 often win cigars
from him and maybe dollar side bet.
Then he says: IN fix you I'll get a
man in here who will beat You, | bet
my life. So he brings in that boy
Jonas. and we have little game, and
I win lust the sane. So he wants to
bet more, and have no wish TO disap-
point him. We play maybe five or six
nights. and we put up S25 a side. |
don't win every time, but by and by
am about $500 ahead of the game.
's1he young man he was working
nc. always play square, and so !
don't suspect nothing wrong. Two
weeks ego last Wednesday We met for
another little game and [ win two or
three times, when Jonas he saws, Il
can't play here with so many looking
on. Let rs 90 upstairs, with You a
friend and me a friend. So says All
,icbt. and We went upstairs. so We
begin new game, and by and 10y |
have 700 pinochle and he has only 400.
Then be says TO Cline, Better You go
down and bring us up some sea
foam and Cline he goes down.
See? Cline was my friend. Then
it was Jonas's deal, and he shut
fcs the cards and l cut. Then
he saws. whats the use of playing out
this game Count mp and see how
many you've got So while l counted
I saw his friend pass him something,
but / didn't pay any attention to that,
but it was another deck all stacked and
he deals me q poor banda deals him
self ], OOC aces, only didn't know it
then. so he says: 'Oh, guess | beat
Won after nil. No. I says, show can
Won do SOP 'T'I bet you thousand
dollars / can beat you, he says, and
his friend he says, I'll bet yOu 300
be can. So then when they put up
the money see what is the matter,
and ! push the $50 over TO them and
say, that ends it You have worked
cold deck on me lie was too rasf
with that big bet, eh
$50 they say We will play again, an |
am willing, because | know they can
not work that game on me two times.
A week ago Wednesday they telephone
for me to come They keep running
after me all the time. That night [
win one or two games, but ! lose 500
don't understand that. / think may
be my digestion is bad. SO next day |
don't drink much, and that night lose
$50 more. That broke me all up.
"Next day / study and study.
What for did that young man wear
such heavy shade over his eyes last
night and never bciore?' say, and
why did he want the lamp just SOP
Then 20 10 Cline's Whore are those
cards 2 ] say, and Cline brings them
ont. / take them to the window.
i here, what are those marks 2 lean
tell every card by the back so | say
nothing. ] buy those cards OF Cline,
nd give him a half dollar.
~ cayeJonas those cbockson Thurs
In, uigh,. and ne said lac would come
,of the money Saturday. lie and
g@cnd came and laid down the checss.
tool th,m.
They are my property, / say.
You wronged me ont OF them. What
.ou think about those cards = and
.how them some spots on the backs.
Jonas be say he never knew nothing
,hort those spots. You think | believe
him?
iona denies working n cold deck on
the old man. lie says he did not wear
any shade over ms eyes, and that he
played a square game with good luck.
Ec says lac has witnesses to prove that
his game was square, and that Hoffman,
when behind the game $500 mot $500,
broke down and cried Historically out Of
yeXation and establishment. When h.
went to Holl'man's store for the money
he says Hoffman induced MIN to give
mp the checks by producing q big IoH
of bills and n check book, just as il
payment was to be made without obiec-
ton, but the moment the checks were
produced he grabbed them, and, being
much bigger than the two boys to-
gethor, kept them. Jonas is employed
IN q brokers' Office near the Stock Ex-
change in New York. but he will not
tell where.